Today Incase launched the Bang-Ga-Wrong mix I did for their artist colaboration with Steven Harrington. I grabbed a bunch of 45’s from Steven’s collection and put together a mix of early dancehall, dub and roots reggae as a supplement to Steven’s Incase Bag.
Bang-Ga-Wrong Tracklist
0:01 Intro (’Original Sound’)
0:25 Eccelton Jarrett, ‘Turn On The Heat’
2:25 Cocoa Tea, [...]
To celebrate Dan’s new blog, I would like everyone to re-listen to Beyonce Knowle’s turn-of-2007 masterpiece: Irreplaceable.
But this time, think of it as a CIA lovesong.
I like to picture a newly wed couple moving into their new house.
The husband, an undercover agent, having to explain his life-depending secrecies.
Listen…
Or, for those of you with filmic [...]
Almost two years ago (time flies…), I was in a cafe/record shop in Brooklyn with my good friends Oscar and Ryan. I was killing time before heading to the airport and back to LA, and burning the remainder of the dollars I’d set aside for New York. Oscar and Ryan recommended I buy a record [...]
Skream (Oliver Jones) is a 21 year old DJ/producer who, along side a few other DJs, is credited for originating Dubstep in the UK. Surprisingly, Soul Jazz Records, mainly a reissue label, has started releasing exclusive material from Dupstep artists like Skream, Digital Mystikz, Burial etc. The Soul Jazz endorsement is a handy stamp of [...]
Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a French singer/musician, writer and painter. She moved from Paris to New York in 1977 and recorded her first record Press Color a year later. Descloux gets lumped in with No Wave and World Music.
This song is from her second record Mambo Nassau that she recorded in the Bahamas:
Lizzy [...]
“Walk On By” was written by Burt Bacharach for Dionne Warwick and was recorded in 1963. In 1969 the late great Isaac Hayes recorded a version on Hot Buttered Soul. “Walk On By” has been recorded by countless artists, and has also been sampled by Slick Rick, Biggie, Ludacris, Wu-Tang etc. Wu-Tang sampled “Walk On [...]
LEMONADE
Lemonade keeps saying they’re putting out a record. These things take time I guess, but in the mean time, here is their song “Sunchips” remixed by fellow San Franciscan Ghosts On Tape. I saw Ghosts On Tape perform at a party in San Francisco last weekend and it was stupendous. It was the second time [...]